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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/19/china_reality_tv_ban/It might be time to reconsider the evils of China's censorship regime, after the Middle Kingdom slapped a ban on reality TV shows featuring celebrities' children.
China's not super-keen on reality shows: this 2015 speech by official Tian Jin urges their producers to make people, not celebrities, the real heroes of such programs. It also calls for reality shows to demonstrate proper socialistic values, represent historical and cotemporary Chinese culture faithfully and avoid sexing things up and thereby straying from the truth.
State-owned outlet Xinhua now reports that the nation's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) has circulated an edict effectively banning reality shows featuring celebrities' kids from state-owned media.
Xinhua doesn't explain the ban and SAPPRFT appears not to have posted its ruling on its web site, but a read of the older speech hints at why: shows in which the rich and famous show off blinged-up kids are hardly likely to depict the values of socialism or put the proletariat front and centre.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Communist Romania imported the soap-opera "Dallas". A series about greedy and scheming texan oil-millionaires.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
People didn't react with: "Woah, capitalism sucks!"
Instead, they reacted with: "Whoa, look how nice life in capitalism is!"
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)About a year ago, there was a series in chinese TV. A drama, set in the chinese Middle-Ages.
Fashion at that time was for chinese noble-women to show off with cleavage. The higher your status, the more cleavage. The chinese empress was played by Fan Bingbing.
So what did the censors do? They re-cut and re-framed many scenes to hide the fact that these women are showing cleavage.
And the chinese audience didn't like this patronizing, but what there they supposed to do.